WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15919, 3 May 1912, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES.

UNEMPLOYED IN SYDNEY. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, May 2,

Mr M'Gowen, the State Premier, read an unemployed deputation a sharp lesson. Ho declared that applicants for work had refused jobs at 9s to lis a day. In reply to statements pcoplo were committing suicide and babies were starving in Sydney owing to scarcity of food, he declared that he would guarantee that no one would starve in New South Wales.

SHIPPING WAGES. [Per Press Association.] . WELLINGTON, May 2. A meeting of the Shipowners' Federation was held at the office of the Employers' Association to-day to consider fresh proposals submitted by the Merchant Service Guild as to the rates of pay for mates on coastal vessels. Mr Deck presided, and there were representatives of local coastal owners present. The meeting had nothing to communicate to the Press..